About “I Like America & America Likes Me”

The eighth-track on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is a political song about gun violence. Matty takes a clear stance against the usage of guns in America. He has expressed smiliar sentiments on Twitter in the past.

According to Matty, the song is a “homage to SoundCloud rap.” Matty elaborates:

It’s the sound of America to me at the moment. I was almost going to put it out with just mumble lyrics, to see how far I could take it.

The title of the song “I Like America and America Likes Me” stems from artwork of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys from 1974. The work of Joseph Beuys was a performance during which he locked himself in a room with a wild coyote for 3 days. At first, the coyote was hostile, but slowly the two learned to live with one another.